Editing Green Monster (section)

==Effect on play==
[[File:Green Monster 2001.jpg|thumb|right|The Green Monster in 2001, with large [[Coca-Cola]] advertising bottles on the leftmost light tower]]
The Green Monster is famous for preventing home runs on many [[line drive]]s that would clear the walls of other ballparks. A side effect of this is to increase the prevalence of [[double (baseball)|doubles]], since this is the most common result when the ball is hit off the wall (often referred to as a "wallball double").  The major-league record for doubles in a season was set by Red Sox player [[Earl Webb]], who hit 67 doubles in 1931,<ref name=doubles/> although only 33 of them were hit at Fenway.{{efn|In addition to his 33 doubles at Fenway, Webb hit six doubles at [[Braves Field]] in Boston, where the Red Sox of the era played some home games, and 28 in road games.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1931/Jwebbe1010051931.htm |title=The 1931 BOS A Batting Splits for Earl Webb |website=[[Retrosheet]] |accessdate=May 16, 2025}}</ref>}} This record has rarely been challenged, and no player has hit 60 or more doubles in a season since 1936.<ref name=doubles>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/2B_season.shtml |title=Single-Season Leaders & Records for Doubles |website=[[Baseball Reference]] |accessdate=May 16, 2025}}</ref>

Some [[left fielder]]s, predominantly those with significant Fenway experience, have become adept at fielding caroms off the wall to throw runners out at second base or hold the batter to a [[single (baseball)|single]]. Compared with other current major-league parks, the wall's placement creates a comparatively shallow left field, and many long fly balls that could be caught in a larger park rebound off the Green Monster for base hits.

While the wall turns many would-be line-drive homers into doubles, it also allows some high yet shallow fly balls to clear the field of play for a home run, one notable example being [[Bucky Dent]]'s home run in the [[1978 American League East tie-breaker game]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bucky-dent/ |title=Bucky Dent |first=David |last=Krell |website=[[Society for American Baseball Research]] |accessdate=May 16, 2025}}</ref><ref name=GlobeMagazine/> As described by [[Don Baylor]], who played for the Red Sox in 1986 and 1987: "High fly balls that are outs almost anywhere else will be a home run here, but low line drives that are home runs almost anywhere else will only be a double here, maybe even a single."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal-mets-pass-up-the-cha/172632666/ |title=Mets pass up the chance to learn about The Wall |first=Dave |last=Anderson |authorlink=Dave Anderson (sportswriter) |agency=[[New York Times News Service]] |newspaper=[[Courier Journal]] |location=[[Louisville, Kentucky]] |page=D3 |date=October 21, 1986 |accessdate=May 18, 2025 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>